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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Darragh McManusMax Boucherat|title=Shiver the Whole Night ThroughThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Aidan FloodWe meet Lori on the first evening she's life is miserable; he's not only bullied but he lost his girlfriend got the house to herself – no neighbour to someone who works pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at the local carnival and even heard that from someone elsework, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. Life is just rubbish What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and needs ending totally. This that is something he almost manages to accomplish as well if it wasn't for a do-gooder passer-by. The next morning while coming log on to terms with Voxminer, the fact he's still aliveworld-building, he hears critter-collecting game that Slaine McAuley, is a girl he knows vaguely, has killed herselfhit in Lori's world. The only thing is But first Lori has a tiny inkling that Aidan knows she hasnthis stormy night doesn't – she told him find herself after entirely on her own, and then she'd diedfinds something even more spooky. What did happen to For the server she and her bestie and why does she choose nobody else should be able to tell him, enter shows signs of all people? tampering. Aidan When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is on a mission: he ''will'' find out.girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471404099</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Danny WestonRachel Greenlaw|title=The PiperCompass and Blade

|summary=Peter and Daisy are evacuated on ''I can hear the eve song of World War Two to the sea. The Grange at Romney Marsh. Something seems wrong from call of the moment they get there: there are children dancing in deep, the garden and strange music that plays at night. When Peter realises that Daisy might be answering beat in danger he’s willing to do anything he can to fill the promise he made to his mother, keep his sister safemy heart.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440511</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|title=The Murdstone Trilogy|author=Mal Peet|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Philip Murdstone is becoming Rosevear, a bit of a has-beenremote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. The once-acclaimed children's author has won ''literary'' awardsMira, like her mother before her, dontchaknow. Literaryis one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. Got that? But these are past glories. His novels about young outsiders are no longer anything new. In factwhen the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, his agent canthey capture the island's leader and Mira't even sell his latests father. And Minerva Finch, said agentDesperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is all about what she can sell. There's nothing for itsecretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she tells Philip, but sets off in search of a foray into fantasyfamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. He's going With only nine days to have unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to write a sword-and-sorcery epic. She's even got an A4 blueprint the heart of whatthe smuggler's required: realmsterritory, minions, dark lords, dwarves, elves, swords, and all Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the rest future of it. Fantasy, you see, is selling by her home and the ''bucketloads, containerloads, downloads''ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910200158</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreview|title=Young Bond: Shoot to Kill|author=Steve Cole|rating=4|genre=TeensFrontpage|summary=''Shoot to Kill'' may be the sixth Young Bond in the series, but it is the first to be written by Steve Cole. He has taken over the reins from the highly capable Charlie Higson. Like the adult Bond books, the character has seen many people write about him since Ian Fleming’s death, so there is no reason to think the quality would suddenly drop after a new author comes on board. In fact, Cole is able to inject a little more energy into a series that was starting to flag.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857533738</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewHarry Allen|title=Misty Falls|author=Joss Stirling|rating=2.5|genre=Teens|summary=Misty is always getting into trouble thanks to the Savant ability which means she can't lie and causes people around her to be brutally honest if she's not careful. Can she find happiness? Or will the serial killer stalking Children of the Savant community strike at Misty or one of her friends?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>019273735X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Unmade|author=Sarah Rees BrennanSun

|summary=Sorry-Ra Eun Seo lives in-the-Vale has been taken over by Rob Lynburn a North Korean town and his merry band of evil sorcerersshe is a talented singer. But Kami Glass has never been one to let danger of death Life is hard and dismemberment stop her on her quest for truth. And Kami has food is difficult to know the truth about what happened to Jaredcome by, Jared who rescued so Seo and her brother and hasn't been seen since.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857078119</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Rebecca Is Always Right|author=Anna Carey|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=First things first: I must admit that I chose to review this book entirely based on its title. After all, what better book to keep on the coffee table friends Nari and brandish at my husband when I'm making a point? What I did not realise when I volunteered is that it is the fourth book in a series that began in 2011 with ''The Real Rebecca''Min go foraging every evening, looking for which Anna Carey won the Senior Children's Book prize at the Irish Book Awards. This has its advantages tree bark and disadvantages. On the plus side, you can tell that the characters are established and well-rounded. On the other hand, there are such frequent references edible grasses to past events – presumably, adventures from supplement the previous three books – that it is clear this is an instalment in an ongoing story meagre rations of rice and not a stand-alone bookkimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847175651</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Ghosts of HeavenAlexia Casale|authortitle=Marcus SedgwickSing if you Can't Dance

|summary=If anyone ever suggests It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you 're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that science and art (or philosophy) don't go together, give them this book! The Ghosts of Heaven presents four fabulous stories from different time frames linked by s what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the natural constant middle of the spirala dance performance that was going to change her life. The introduction provides a lyrical explanation of the birth of But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the universepity stares, the Solar System and us and of the dimensional spiral we call the helix. It also explains desperate to get back to a life that we 's as normal as she can read possibly manage. Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the stories in any day to day traumas of all the twenty-four possible orders we pleasechallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780621981</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Doctor Who: 12 Doctors 12 StoriesSimon Fox|authortitle=Malorie Blackman, Holly Black and othersDeadlock

|summary=How long do you keep your birthday presents for? A weekLate one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, a monthand then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a year – or life? Is that time-scale differentsecret place, perhaps, when you're nearly a thousand years old? I only ask because Doctor Who is, of course, both 51 (in our earthly, televisual representation) and 900 and more in human years as a character. In 2013 we were given a great book that gave us a story for every Doctor Who we've seen join him on TV, in honour of the 50th birthday proceedingsrun. But now is a year on They get together, and we're a further Doctor down but barely begin to smell the line. And so what was '11 Doctors, 11 Stories' is now '12 Doctors, 12 Stories'. So while many whiff of us would have cherished and kept said birthday present, Southern trains when the only addition father is arrested, leaving Archie on the lastlate express to Brighton, which like the rest toting a tin his father was available as an e-book. So it's worth revisiting what I said about the book last timedetermined to keep away from his colleagues, then chucking in and the (what might only be temporarily) concluding story at the endbearer of a whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141359889</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreview|title=Opal PlumsteadFrontpage|author=Jacqueline WilsonLex Croucher|ratingtitle=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Living in Edwardian England, Opal Plumstead is a fiercely intelligent girl. She has already won a scholarship to a public school and dreams of going to university. But all her ambitions are snatched away when her father is sent to prison Gwen and Opal is forced to abandon her education for a job Art Are Not in the Fairy Glen sweet factory. The other workers there find Opal snobby and arrogant but the factory's owner, Mrs Roberts, notices her artistic talent and treats Opal as a protege. Through Mrs Roberts, Opal learns about the suffragette movement and even meets the legendary Mrs Pankhurst. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857531093</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Lies We Tell Ourselves|author=Robin TalleyLove|rating=54

|summary=The year is 1959, and Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a small group of black students are attending Jefferson Highgay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a previously all-white schoolmost delightful way. Barely anyone is happy that Sarah Dunbar and her friends are going to Jefferson In this story, Gwen and the group face a terrifying ordeal as Arthur have been betrothed since they're surrounded by people who want were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see them fail. Chief amongst them , is Linda Hairston, daughter of one of in love with Bridget (the townkingdom's most vocal segregationalistsonly female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. But And then when Sarah and Linda start working together on Gwen then catches Art kissing a school projectboy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of falling in love with each other, when really they start to realise are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they may have more find a way in common than which they think - and friendship might not can both truly be all themselves, or are they're looking for from each other.destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848452926</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=SparkNick Brooks|authortitle=John Twelve HawksPromise Boys

|summary=Olivia Mead When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is strongmurdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Each, independently-minded and unrepentant in her beliefsseemingly, but there is has a certain natural vulnerability to her personality which makes her so appealing. She isn’t a ruthlessgrudge of some description against Principal Moore, remorseless warriorand each could have been there at the time of his murder. She is a human being But who simply wants to be treated like onekilled him, rather than a pet. She isn’t an elusive and daunting beautywhy, because this isn’t and if any of the point of her character. Her beauty lies in in her firmly held valuesboys are innocent, which she sticks by even at an age when it would will they be so easy able to go with the flow.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1419712160</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=BelzharA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Meg WolitzerKitt Townsend|rating=4.5

|summary=Solomon Klyne isn''I was sent here because of t a boy. His name was Reeve Maxfieldbad lad, and I loved him and then so why is he died, and almost running around London committing a year passed and no-one knew what series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to do with methe second question because I avoid spoilers.But I'' Jam's grief for Reeve has left her paralysed. She does nothing but think of him and ll answer the forty-first one days of their relationship: for his grandmother. She's not interested in school. friends, food, family, even therapy. And so, in desperation, Jam's parents send her off to a boarding school for Kids With Problems.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471123766</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jill AtkinsPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=The Real Test (Shades 2.0)Different for Boys|rating=34.5|genre=Teens|summary=Ryan had just passed his driving test Ant is in Year Eleven at the first attempt and he ''knew'' it meant that he was quite a great driver. There was just one snag: his mother wasn't exactly on board about this standard school, and wouldn't let him borrow her car. There was always an excuse as is surprised to why find his geography class (within which it just wasn't possibleseems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, even when he'd promised so his desk is one of four with both his friends that he could have best buddy from the car so football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they could all go off somewhereback to primary school days together. Finally he got his Mum to admit that she was As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a bit worried about him using it single- but she did offer sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to go out with him so that he could get some practice insex. Ryan knew that the time Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn''practicing'' was pastt know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. I meanHe's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, heand so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'd experienced', but whether that'passed'' his tests set in stone, hadnhe can't be sure. And that's mostly because of who he?'s been having the relationship and the sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781276285</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=The Winter HorsesStitched Up|author=Philip KerrSteve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=It’s Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the winter of 1941 smartly-dressed man and we are woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in the UkraineHanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. A fourteen year old girl is hiding in a wood Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the vast and bittermini-cold steppebus to Hanoi. Her name is Katinka Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in a name from folk song and fairy taleshop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and she has been befriended by two of beading on the legs? The ones with the wild Przelowski’s horsesartfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406359831</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jill AtkinsPatrice Lawrence|title=Aftershock (Shades 2.0)Needle|rating=43

|summary=SheBrave. Charlene, the 's MADDYheroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, you knowcharacters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, not MADELEINE, but thatshe's only one of the problems which she fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has with taken up residence in her parentsson Blake's old room while he's at uni. They might Such a tempestuous personality may be on holiday in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of the most beautiful places on earthplot here, but as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her mother simply will not lighten up. Sheyounger sister – a younger sister she's always complaining about what Maddy doesallowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, what when she wears or doesn't wear (there's not ''nearly'' enough of that bikinishouts someone down as expletively ignorant.And then..) and Maddy has had enough. She slams out of their bungalow and goes down well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to the beach - but it's not long before the sea is all sucked away remark how sharp and tragedy hitspointy those knitting needles can be... Will Maddy have the chance to apologise for all the hurtful things which she said?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781276293</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Darren ShanAnn Sei Lin|title=ZOM-B FamilyRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=REPEATING STANDARD WARNING! If you havenKurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't read have any say in the matter, because the first book in this seriesMidori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, STOP READING NOW! NOW! Spoilers ahoy!and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857077848</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Skulduggery Pleasant: The Dying of the LightMarcus Sedgwick|authortitle=Derek LandyWrath|rating=4.5

|summary=Everything comes down Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to thishis best friend, Cassie. The war between the Sanctuaries was merely They were half of a prelude to the real battledesultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the fight against Darquesse, perhaps enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the most powerful sorcerer earth. Is this connected with one of all time. Prophesied to burn everyone and everything to ashes, her arrival heralds eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world as everyone knows is already a done deal? Is it, and some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the stakes have never been highertruth? Well, the need never greater, for Skulduggery Pleasant and what remains of his allies to do what they do best: kicking evil very hard in the facenot when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007489250</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreview|title=ErenFrontpage|author=Simon P Clark|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=People - Mum, mostly - are keeping secrets from Oli. Why have they had to leave London and come to live in the country with Uncle Rob? Why hasn't Dad come too? Why does everyone keep turning off the TV news every time it comes on? Why does Em's dad dislike Oli when he doesn't even know him? When will Dad come? When will life go back to normal? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472110978</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewTori Bovalino|title=Young Sherlock: Stone Cold|author=Andrew LaneThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=Every human being Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a mystery, even to themselves, so there's request for over a particular pleasure hundred books that she has to be found in tracing deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the roots of someonebooks: Mr Birch. The boarding school's interests headmaster, and life's worka man Tess hates. Just how did our hero develop his ability, As a petty act of revenge for example, to tell making her find and deliver such a person's characterlarge request, profession and history within minutes Tess sticks post-it notes on each of meeting him or her? In this, the seventh volume in the series of books about , scribbled with the early years ugliest insults she can think of the famous Sherlock Holmes. They're never meant to reach him, we see how events and a most intriguing couple of mentors combine to lead him down a path to his eventual role as a consulting detectivecourse. Well, if he survives till adulthood, that Her plan is. Of all his talents the most pronounced one does seem to be the knack of finding people who are determined to kill him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447272579</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Rising|author=Tom Moorhouse|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Strife and Kale are two young water voles who can sniff get her anger out trouble better than their careful sister Ivy like this, and to the fury of their protective mother, Aventhen take them all off before delivering them. They just can't help No harm done… Or it. But Kale isn't telling Strife everything - he has a secret. When long-lost Uncle Sylvan arrives warning of danger and the siblings eavesdrop on the adults' conversationwould be, Kale's secret is exposed. Even though she doesnif someone hadn't fully understand it, Strife follows delivered them for her brother into danger to avert a bigger danger. The quest on which these two young water voles embark will test them to their limits and they'll need all the help Uncle Sylvan and Fodur the rat can provide...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192734822</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Wolf Brother: Chronicles of Ancient DarknessPhilip Reeve|authortitle=Michelle PaverUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|summary=Living six thousand years ago, after the Ice Age but before the spread of agricultureIn a word, Torak and his people understand the natural worldrich. They revere the animals they hunt and never waste There is certainly an ounce abundance of prey. A deer provides them not only with foodriches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but also with clothesway west, water carriers, shoes, rope, even needlesbeyond the Scillies. Torak and his There are troll people also understand spirituality. They see the sacred in the seasons on it, and the cycle of the moon. And they believe in demons.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444015419</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Found|author=Harlan Coben|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=It's been eight months since Mickey watched his father die in a car accident. Since thensea-witches, he's been drawn into the work and legends of the mysterious Abeona Shelter, rescuing children Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and young people their monster approaching from dangerous situationseven further west, where no ship dare sail. The latest person to go missing is Ema's online boyfriend. Mickey isn't convinced he existscurrent Darks are the Watcher, but Ema's adamant they need to look for him. MeanwhileAndrewe, Mickey's nemesis Troy who has been taken off to keep notes of activity from the basketball team after failing a steroid test. Troy isn't exactly Mickey's favourite personHidden Lands, but he knows the team won't play so well without him, so when Troy asks Mickey for help to prove his innocence, Mickey reluctantly agrees.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409124517</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=No Stone Unturned|author=Helen Watts|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Kelly doesn't have any friends at school. People don't like travellers. So she's glad brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to find a new friend in Ben over the summer holidays. Even Kelly's dog, Tyson, likes Ben. Exploring the disused quarries worry about such local to their village of Wilmcote, they find some interesting treasuresyokel superstitions, including an old boot. So when school starts again and Mr Walker sets a local history projectAndrewe's foundling daughter, Kelly decides to find who washed up out more about the old quarries, the coming of the railway and the use of Wilmcote limestone in the construction of the Houses of Parliament. Ben offers to help and soon the pair uncover worrying evidence about what really went on all that time sea one day eleven years ago... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472905407</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Counting By 7s|author=Holly Goldberg Sloan|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Willow is not like other girls. She is not just smartBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, but certifiably gifted. She gets on better with adults than she does her peers. She loves patterns both his sullen brother and plants, his curious ward are thrust into the colour red and the number 7. She is charming and adorable and quirky. She is one world of the most real characters I've met in a book this year. And she is hurtingprotecting their island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848124163</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The 100 SocietyKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|authortitle=Carla SpradberyJulia and the Shark

|summary=William Everett's father Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has risen high been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in the railway. But it wasn't always thus. He spent many years working SW England to be lighthousekeepers for Cornelius Van Horne as a manual labourersummer, cutting and blasting through swathes of Canada and laying tracks. When Will and his father witness in the laying far NE of the last piece Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, that kind of track, there's an avalancheScottish island. And Will's father saves Van Horne's life. Promotion and success followed and now Van Horne Dad is deadgoing to be automating the lantern, Will's father which is general manager and his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the world's biggest train - the Boundlesselusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, at 987 carriages long - she will carry his body in perpetuitybe homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910200107</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Impossible Knife of MemoryJonathan Stroud|authortitle=Laurie Halse AndersonThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=54|genre=Teens|summary=Hayley Scarlett McCain is back in her childhood home after years on an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the road with her fatherSeven Kingdoms of Britain, trying robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to outrun the keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. She doesn't really remember living hereWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, nor does she really want they plan to flee to. Not when her father can't drive under bridges for fear the mythical Free Isles of snipersthe London Lagoon. Not when he's self medicating with alcohol Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and drugs. Not when he refuses help from all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the VA.rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407147668</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Witch of Salt and StormMercedes Helnwein|authortitle=Kendall KulperSlingshot|rating=53

|summary=Avery wants just one thing: Gracie Welles has resigned herself to take her place as the witch being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of Prince Island. The witch who controls the winds and helps the whalers on their way. The witch whose charms on which the whole island relies. But Averya man with a "real" family, she is used to not being a priority in people's mother, who has rejected magic, came and stole her awaylives. Avery's prison But when she defends a random boy in her mother's house class with her slingshot, her simple existence is a luxurious one - there are dresses and trinkets and ponies most girls would die changed forgood. But Avery doesn't care. All No longer can she wants is to get back to spend her grandmother and to continue time writing novels in solitude, for her witch's apprenticeshiplife now has a boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408335190</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cate SampsonT L Huchu|title=Splintered LightThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=When Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she was just a childdropped out of school, Leahshe's face was horribly scarred in an attack in which been using it to support not only herself, but her mother younger sister and another woman diedher aging grandmother. And itHowever, there's all brought horribly back when an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the man convicted is released years later after new evidence has emerged. Charliecity's father children. Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that man. And Charlie wants the world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than anything to reunite with his exonerated father she ever could've imagined. Will she find the missing children and help him get revenge on the people who falsely accused him. Then there's Linden, newly released from a young offenders institute, whose brother Victor has bring an inexplicable obsession with end to this years-old crime. All three teenagers are defined by a single calamity. But what really happenedevil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471115836</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreview|title=Pills and StarshipsFrontpage|author=Lydia Millet|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Ravaged by the effects of global warming, disease and an increasingly unsustainable population, the future in which Nat and her brother Sam live is a far cry from the world of their parents' youth. Corporations run the remains of their society, forbidding the birth of new children, using a ubiquitous supply of Kristen O''pharma'' drugs to keep the population in check, and perhaps most sinister of all, taking control of death itself. Riddled by depression Nat's parents have decided to buy a death contract to take their Final Week in a slickly engineered resort in what remains of Hawaii. As the days tick down, Nat finds herself following the lead of her more cynical and rebellious brother, and begins to genuinely question the system that she has previously accepted all her life; however, what chance do two teens possibly have against the all-seeing, all-powerful corps?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1617752762</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewNeal|title=Ruin Lycanthropy and Rising|author=Leigh BardugoOther Chronic Illnesses

|summary=Alina Starkov, the Sun SummonerHaving recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has fallen. In her confrontation to come to terms with the Darkling, fact that she called on forbidden powersmay be in constant pain for the rest of her life. Not only did she nearly dieShe joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', but an online support group where she didn't succeed in stopping himtalks to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. Now he sits on Ravka's throne, ruling the country through fearThey talk about their troubles and help each other out, while she wastes away underground, weakened, also providing an escape to just joke and far from the light that would strengthen hermess around.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00KASIW7A</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John Townsend|title=Death on Toast (Shades 2.0)|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Freddy has the ultimate disadvantage When Brigid—one of having rich parents. Well, actually, I guess ither closest friends—doesn's not so much that they're rich as that they're far too busy doing what they wantt respond to the chat for a while, have Priya becomes concerned. She decides to do steal her parents' car and drive to take much if any notice of Freddy and what heBrigid's doing. He's left house to check up on his own - often overnight - to do exactly as he wants to doher. And But what Freddy wants she doesn't expect to do find there is a werewolf in the basement – and for that werewolf to watch horror DVDs. Who's be the girl she has been talking to say whether it was online for the DVDs or his parents lack of interest which drove him to do what he did, but whichever it was, Freddy does something from which there is no returnpast few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781276382</amazonuk>1683692349

{{newreview|title=The Eye of the Falcon (Gods and Warriors Book 3) |author=Michelle Paver|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=It's been seven long months since Hylas and Pirra were separated in the wake of the devastating eruption of Thalakrea. The eruption was followed by tsunami and the coldest winter anyone can remember. There is no spring. No sun.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141339314</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Replica|author=Jack Heath|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=There is a tendency for adults to feel embarrassed about reading young adult fiction, but this book demonstrates that a focus on a younger character shouldn’t prevent a wider audience from enjoying a good story. ''Replica'' is a strange and compelling combination of action, mystery, thriller and science-fiction. Heath has even included a hint of a romance. There is something for everyone and although the book raises some challenging and thought-provoking problems, the text is easy-to-read, immersive and unpretentious.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>019273766X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Apple and Rain|author=Sarah Crossan|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=''A story about sad endings.''<br>''A story about happy beginnings.''<br>''A story to make you realise who is special.''<br> This is the blurb Move on the back jacket of ''Apple and Rain'' and it sums up the book just perfectly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140885306X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Between the Lives|author=Jessica Shirvington|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Sabine lives two lives. Literally. Each night, at midnight, she shifts from one self to another. Time resets too; Sabine may be a teenager to her families and friends but in reality, she has thirty-odd years-worth of life experience. It's a stressful existence: the shift itself is frightening and painful, and Sabine must be careful to behave appropriately in each environment. And her lives are very different. In Wellesley, Sabine is wealthy and popular with two brothers and a boyfriend other girls are jealous of. In Roxbury, she has one sister, parents whose business is struggling, and a reputation for rebelliousness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140833173X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Night Runner|author=Tim Bowler|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Strange men are watching Vinny's house but he doesn't know why. His mum is being disloyal to his dad but he doesn't know why. Something is up with his dad and his job but Vinny doesn't know what. But Vinny does know that he's had enough of school, where he's being bullied. Everything is going wrong. And now, the men who are watching the house are after Zinny too. Mum ends up in the hospital. Dad disappears. What's going on?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192794140</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]